Daydreaming Idly
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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Author Amitava Kumar's Response to Being Advised to Leave the Jaipur Literature Festival - NYTimes.com
That the novel The Satanic Verses can still cause so much trouble because it “hurts the feelings” of some (not all) religious people is something that never ceases to amaze me. That Salman Rushdie was unable to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival because of death threats saddens me. That four artists at the Jaipur Literature Festival chose to read from Rushdie’s novel, putting themselves at personal risk for both violence and legal difficulties, well, that makes me smile, and gives me hope.
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